Charles Hill Mailes
Charles Hill Mailes (25 May 1870 – 17 February 1937) was a Canadian actor of primarily the silent era. Mailes appeared in 290 films between 1909 and 1935. He married actress Claire McDowell in 1906 and the couple appeared in numerous silent films together. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mark of Zorro
as Don Carlos PulidoDon Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked...
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The Beautiful Spy
as SaavedraA complete version of the film is held by Cineteca Del Friuli.
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Sadie McKee
as Uncle Ben (uncredited)A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
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The Massacre
as In Wagon TrainThe story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
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Murder by Television
as James HoughlandJames Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously...
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The New York Hat
as Mr. HardingTo fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a...
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The Old Actor
as The Replacement ActorAn elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because...
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The Talk of the Town
as uncreditedHer strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her...
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The Battle
as The Union commanderUnion soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the...
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The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
as The Ranch OwnerTwo young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events...
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Old Ironsides
as Commodore PrebleAn embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old...
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The Man from Downing Street
as Col. WentworthSomeone in India is deciphering secret codes and passing information from London's Downing...
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The Faker
as HadrianRita Martin, the partner of a phony spiritualist who uses information supplied by her to gull...
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A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
as The FatherThe two brothers and their adopted daughter of the household grew up from childhood together....
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I'll Tell the World
as StatesmanLee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the...
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Treasure Island
as Dr. LiveseyYoung Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure...
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The Woman in Black
as Mr. EverettYoung gypsy girl Mary, is seduced by the immoral Robert Crane and abandoned. She is exiled from...
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The Sunbeam
as The JanitorSet in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour...
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The Making of a Man
as In First Audience / At First Stage Door / BackstageA young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She...
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Friends
as The BartenderThe orphan Dora is courted by two different gold miners.
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Lilies of the Field
as JudgeMildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in...
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Mothers Cry
as Mary's FatherHaving raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son,...
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The Lighthouse by the Sea
as Caleb GaleA lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out...
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For His Son
as The Father, a PhysicianA father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called...
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The Fighting Demon
as Señor DarcyRichard Talmadge plays John Drake, a safe expert who gets work managing a safe company in South...
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So Near, Yet So Far
as Rich Man in Other TownIt's love at first sight for the Boy, but obstacles-- namely shyness, and the temerity of other...
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The Man in the Saddle
as Jeff Morgan Sr.A party of campers return to Tom Stewart's ranch resort to report they have been held up by...
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The Bronze Bride
as Joe DuboisDisgusted with his son Harvey's attitude since his return from college, wealthy William Ogden...
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Man's Genesis
as Cave ManAn old man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man: Caveman Weakhands is unable to court a...
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The Painted Lady
as The FatherA lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an...
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The Unholy Garden
as Alfred de JongheAt a hotel in the middle of the Sahara, an old man and his daughter try to keep the location of...
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Near To Earth
as uncreditedThis is the story of Gato, an Italian immigrant, who lives with his wife, Marie, and his younger...
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The Speed Maniac
as John MatthewsBilly Porter sells his ranch and travels to San Francisco to try his hand in the business world....
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The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
as Blue Grass Pete's PalThe Goddess, the prettiest and best-natured girl that ever graced that little mining town, meets...
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The City Gone Wild
as Luther WinthropHard-boiled underworld melodrama, with gang wars and gunfights, in which criminal lawyer turns...
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
as uncreditedThe owner of a gambling hall is entrusted with the care of a pretty young girl. He falls in love...
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At the Altar
as uncreditedAt the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the...
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The School Teacher and the Waif
as Nora's FatherNora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends...
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The Lure of the Circus
as Malcolm SomersLure of the Circus is a 1918 American adventure film serial directed by J. P. McGowan.
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The House of Darkness
as The Lunatic (The Unfortunate Patient)A potentially violent patient in an insane asylum is calmed when he hears a nurse playing the...
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In the Aisles of the Wild
as First WoodsmanA widower and his two daughters live in the wilds of the north woods. They form the acquaintance...
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Free to Love
as Kenton CrawfordAn ex-reformatory girl seeks a new life with the help of a fatherly judge and an earnest young...
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The Phantom City
as BenedictA weird letter tells our heroes to go to a ghost town which has an abandoned mine. There they...
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The Lesser Evil
as The Revenue Officer / PolicemanA young woman's peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of...
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The Coming of Angelo
as GuidoYoung Theresa was thought to be much favored in the love of Guido, the leader of the Italian...
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The Miser's Heart
as Second CrookThieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for...
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A Temporary Truce
as Mexican JimA Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps...
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The Inner Circle
as A GangsterA lonely widower living in the Italian quarter of the city, whose only solace since the death of...
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The Unwelcome Guest
as The SonJust before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly...
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Find Your Man
as Gregory MillsPaul Andrews returns from the World War with Buddy, a dog he found in Europe. Instead of getting...
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Iola's Promise
as Jack's Sweetheart's FatherIola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats but is soon rescued by...
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Uncharted Seas
as Old Jim EastmanAfter her drunken husband Tom brings home three cabaret women, Lucretia can no longer bear the...
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The Fighting Grin
as Otis KennedyA man bets his father $10,000 that he'll marry his girlfriend within the next week, even with...
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Man Power
as Judson StoddardCaterpillar-tractor operator Tom Roberts' mission is to deliver a fragile cargo of dynamite, to...
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Money Madness
as Whispering Smith (as Charles H. Mailes)When a bank is on the verge of collapse, its president, George Fuller, uses his own fortune to...
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The Whirlpool of Destiny
as Thomas BellGeorge Bell, a wild young man, lives with his rancher father, Thomas Bell, in Paradise Valley,...
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The Great Mail Robbery
as Stephen PhelpsVeteran serial director George B. Seitz keeps things perpetually on the move in The Great Mail...
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The Long Road
as A Priest / In BarEdith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him...
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The Magic Eye
as Sam Bullard (as Charles H. Mailes)During World War I, John Bowman, the captain of a tramp steamer, refuses to allow his wife and...
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The Sands of Dee
as Mary's dadA young girl who lives by the sea with her parents, is the object of one fellows affection. One...
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The Lair of the Wolf
as Robert ShepherdWidow Margaret Dennis, unaware of the abusive nature of Oliver Cathcart, agrees to become his...
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The Faded Lilies
as Francois' ButlerA disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his...
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The Wanderer
as The FatherA little over six minutes survive of this Biograph short. Not to be confused with another...
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Drums of Love
as Duke de GranadaA princess is betrothed to a deformed monarch, but falls hard for his handsome brother.
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The Midnight Flyer
as Silas HendersonThe speed of lightning; the roar of thunder; the thrills of an earthquake; it's "The midnight...
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Fate's Interception
as The Mexican SweetheartThe representative of an American Syndicate comes to Mexico to look over some land. While there,...
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A Sailor’s Heart
as The NotaryA short film directed by Wilfred Lucas for the Biograph Company.
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Fate
as Sim SloaneSim Sloane and his beloved son were the reprobates of the village, not what would be called...
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A Woman in the Ultimate
as Verda's StepfatherThe unwilling dupe of her step-father, she became the decoy of the wealthy young man, but at the...
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Home Folks
as The Young Woman's FatherGriffith interweaves two tales of one family: A stern father rules his family by what he thinks...
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Queen of the Chorus
as Rufus Van Der LaydenA chorus girl falls for a young man pretending to be his boss, a millionaire. WHen his boss...
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Southern Justice
as Major Dillon (as Charles H. Mailes)Three old men -- Judge Moran (George Hernandez), Roger Appleby (Jack Curtis) and Caleb Talbot...
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A Pueblo Legend
as The Old Man / A PuebloA love story set among Native Americans.
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The Seekers
as Reverend Israel Mount (as Charles Mailes)The quiet life style of Ruth Heck and her brother Lem, who belong to a religious sect called the...
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The People vs. John Doe
as DetectiveA farmer is unjustly convicted of a homicide he did not commit.
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The Narrow Road
as The CounterfeiterTwo men are released from prison after having served their sentences. One is determined to go...
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Under Burning Skies
as uncreditedJoe, "The Bad Man of San Fernand," is one tough customer. He sets his sights on a lovely young...
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Lena and the Geese
as uncreditedA first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman,...
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The Telephone Girl and the Lady
as The Girl's FatherD.W. Griffith short intercuts two different stories before mixing them together at the end. The...
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The Better Man
as Charles CliftonLord Hugh Wainwright is a Britisher who, on his way to his California ranch, rescues pretty...
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A Lodging for the Night
as The Mexican Girl's FatherDick Logan, a young writer, stops at a little border town and takes lodging at the Mexican Inn....
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The Hungarian Nabob
as Count John Karpathy the 'Nabob'After Count John Karpathy, belovedly known as the Nabob, falls ill while entertaining the...
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Three Mounted Men
as WardenFellow convicts Cheyenne Harry and Buck Masters become even more bitter enemies when Buck agrees...
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The Soul of Pierre
as Dr. Davidoff (as Charles H. Mailes)Two tortured artists believe by committing suicide their souls will avail themselves on their...
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Come Through
as John LysaghtFrom a Montana mining camp, a young man progresses to the society heights of New York, making...
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The Speed Demon
as Kudge (as Charles H. Mailes)An ambitious race driver who is not allowed to compete decides to outwit his competitors.
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Go and Get It
as J.L. Rich (as C. Mailles)Wrestling legend Bull Montana plays a murderous gorilla with a human brain transplant who is...
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Michael O'Halloran
as Peter HardingOrphan newsboy Michael O'Halloran "adopts" Peaches, a little crippled girl, when her...
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East Side - West Side
as Dr. Ernest ShepleyPoor, decent young woman Lory (Percy) avoids moral pratfalls after she is employed by a rich...
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Soft Boiled
as The LawyerJohn Steele, a rich uncle, threatens to disinherit his nephew, Tom Steele, unless the latter...
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The College Widow
as Professor WitherspoonFollowing another instance of the perennial defeat of the Atwater College football team,...
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The Mysterious Mrs. M
as ClubmanA depressed man grows to love life just as his fortune teller's predictions become dire.
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The Baby and the Stork
as The FatherBobby is jealous of the new baby, so he takes it to the zoo and tries to return it to the stork.
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The Frontier Trail
as Maj. MainardDolly Mainard, en route to her father, a major at Fort Blaine, is escorted through dangerous...
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Danger Within
as Matthew WedgestoneA ruthless, miserly millionaire wakes up one day and finds that a quarantine sign reading...
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One Stolen Night
as DoadWhen his ne'er-do-well brother embezzles the commissary funds of their cavalry unit stationed in...
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The Winged Mystery
as Josiah WayneLouis and August Siever, the twins sons of a German father and American mother, are traveling in...
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A Terrible Discovery
as DickA criminal designs a plan to get revenge on the district attorney who convicted his brother.
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Olaf—An Atom
as A ParentBroken by grief after his mother's death, Olaf becomes a wanderer. He is treated cruelly until...
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The Carnation Kid
as Crawford WhitelyIt's a case of mistaken identity in this comedy that centers around a country bumpkin mistaken...
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The Lash of Power
as Charles W. SherwoodJohn Rand, having lived in a small town his entire life, dreams of possessing wealth and power...
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Bitter Apples
as Cyrus ThorndenJohn Wyncote's father dies, leaving him a bankrupt business. He instructs the family attorney,...
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The Girl Who Won Out
as Mr. WicksOrphaned after the death of their mother, Nancy Grimm and her baby sister Ellen are taken to the...
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The Eternal Mother
as Mary's FatherJohn and Mary divorce their spouses to marry each other. Mary dies after giving birth and the...
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The Eagle's Wings
as Senator WrightA senator fights for the passage of a war-preparedness bill, while foreign spies conspire to...
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Held to Answer
as District Attorney SearleJohn Hampstead gives up his career as an actor and his actress sweetheart, Marian Dounay, to...
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The Yaqui Cur
as The Yaqui Chief / GoldseekerThe prospector had taught the Indian boy the doctrine of peace. When his tribe resisted the...
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Chasing Choo Choos
as Silas ScottVirginia Craig will become super-wealthy and gain sole control of her factory, unless...
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Treason
as General HawthorneIt's just after the Civil War in Kansas and Joan Randall and her troops are continuing the...
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Under Two Flags
as Arab Chief (as Charles H. Mailes)Tells the story of an English aristocrat, apparently in disgrace, who disappears and joins a...
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The Reformers
as The FatherBehold in this film the Uplifter, a peculiarity of the human species, quite convinced that all...
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The Home Stretch
as Mr. WilsonJohnny Hardwick (Douglas MacLean) is the owner of the fastest horse in the next race. Although...
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Our Better Selves
as Henry LaurensThe marriage of a wealthy and frivolous member of French nobility, Loyette Merval, to an...
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Full of Pep
as Escamillo GomezReturning from a selling trip, Jimmy Baxter, the fastest salesman at his father's munitions...
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Polly Redhead
as Duke of OsterleyAside from the fact that Polly had red hair in abundance, she was not otherwise an exceptional...
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The Brass Bullet
as Homer JoyRosalind Joy is a constantly imperiled heiress to a fortune in gold. An 18 part adventure serial
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East Lynne
as Lord Mount SevernAn adaptation of the stage warhorse East Lynne featuring a young, curly-haired Alan Hale as the...
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Crashin' Thru
as BenedictGracia, a half-breed Indian girl, plots with Cons Saunders to steal cattle from Blake because he...
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Thundering Hoofs
as Don Juan EstradaThe border bandit Severn is after Estrada's money. He not only gets Estrada to promise his...
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The Spotted Lily
as Pere Anatole laterWracked with illness and discarded by a wealthy and unscrupulous aristocrat, Yvonne Lamour seeks...
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Saved from Himself
as The ProprietorJoseph Graybill, learning that his friends have been making a lot of money in the stock market,...
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The Blue Streak
as Don CarlosA young man is sent by his father to Mexico to investigate his mine. On the way he meets a girl,...
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The Bond Boy
as Isom ChaseFor the sake of his impoverished mother, Joe Newbolt bonds himself to harsh Isom Chase. Ollie...
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